Automobile-lamp.



J. O. KBNDALL L T. O. ROBINSON.

AUTOMOBILE LAMP.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.16,}912

Patented Mar. 11, 1913.

UNTTED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE..

' JAMES OLANDIS KENDALL AND THOMAS ORL-EAN ROBINSON, OF HANFORD,

- CALIFORNIA.

AUTOMOBILE-naman Speccation of Letters Patent. p,

Patented Mar. ,11, 1913.

Appllication led March 16, 1912. ,Serial No. 684,206.

To all whom it may concern: l

Beit known that we, J AMES OLANDIS KEN- DALL and THOMAS ORLEAN ROBINSON, citi- Zens of the Unit-ed Sta.tes,-residing at Hanford, in the county of Kings and State of California, haye invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automobile-Lamps,

of which the following is a specification.

can be readily changed.

Our invention ,relates lto improvements in automobile lamps.

The object of our invention is to rovide a lamp of this character for exhibiting the number of the machine, whereby it may be readily read by night or day and at the same time providinga` lampv in which the number Y Another object of our invention is toV provide a simple cheap and effective lamp having 'certain' details'of structure hereinafter more fully setforth.

Our invention, will be described in detail hereinafter' and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in whiche- Figurel is a perspective view of. a lamp embodying our invention, a portion of theispreferably made of sheet metal and of the form shown with the 'cent-ral ventilator. 1 although this can be varied without de art ing from our invention. One end o the lamp is rovided with a hin ed door 2lby means oi) which access may e had to the lamp, and the rear wall 3 on the outside is provided with a socket 4 for receiving a bracket by means of which the lamp is attached to the automobile. The bottom 5 of the lamp has an .opening therein in which is secured a socket 7 for an electric bulb A8 and the wires 9 secured' to ,the socket on the outside of the lamp. While we have shown an electric lamp, it is understcodthat an oil receptacle could be placed in the lamp, without departing from our invention.

The body of the lamp is preferably of an elongated horizontal form having its front open and covered by a plate of glass 10 and arranged back of thev glass is t-he opaque plate 11. The glass and the opaque plate 11 lie flat againsteach other and as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings are clamped in the body of the lamp byfthe rolled edgesy 12. The opaque plate has cut out thereof the desired numbers and4 also .name of the State, to designate the license number of the niachine and State. As shownin the drawings the number is 51,071 and the State is California. Thecutting'away of the opaque plate to represent the numbers provides meansA 1 through the cutaway portion leavingthe vremainder of the glass black. In order that the`same can be-'used as a license number by day, the glass plate 10 has painted thereon on the outside a'round'tlie cut out numbers, the outlines of said numbers. lines are preferably white as the opaque plate is black and the white will ber very plain by day.

In order that the numbering and State may be readily changed so that the one lamp will serve-to trayel from one State to another the opaque plate 11 is removably held in the lamp in rear of-theglass 10 and has These outstand out fmore prominently, thus making the numone endextending beyond the end "of the body of the lampso that it imay be readily slid out'while the-glass plate is permanently held. In this way. as you pass from State to Sta-te the different `slides are placed inthe lamp and the outlines of the. numbers changed on the glass plate. lThese outlines may be readily erased from the. glass. plate by turpentine Where` :the ordinarypaint is usedbut it would be preferableto use some other preparation which could be more` readily erased.

While `we have shown our device used as an automobile lamp it be readily understoodthat the same` coul be used a's an adverlzising sign and yet employ the same princip e;

In order that the lamp may be used as a l tail lightfor an automobile the opaque plate is provided with a round openingv 13 over which is pasted a translucent material of red whereby a red. light will show.

Having thus described v our invention what we claim is- Ina lamp of' the character: described, a 110 Lomme@ body provided with a Window?, an opaque In testimony whereof We hereto aliix our plate covering said Window and provided signaturesin the presence of two Witnesses.

with cut out character openings, and a glass JAMES OLANDIS KENDALL.

panel positioned externally1 of said plate and THOMAS ORLEAN RUBNSN. 5 provided with outline congurations in re Witnesses:

istr'y With the characters @inthe plate and 1n W. F. KELLEY,

a color contrasting to the color of the plate. JAMES J. HIGHT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of ltazeniae` Washington, D. C. 

